Thursday, September 26, 2019

It's Sad When SJW Idiocy Seeps Into The Hard Sciences

I expect social "science" instructors to believe in loony social justice theories, but those of us in the hard sciences--where knowledge and logic are supposed to reign--should be safe from such idiocy:
Teaching the Pythagorean Theorem or pi in geometry class perpetuates white privilege by giving the “perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans.”

That’s what Rochelle Gutierrez argues in her new anthology for math teachers, “Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods.”
Rochelle Gutierrez is a Professor of Latina/Latino Studies.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

We can still teach algebra, though, since that comes from the Arabic.